Here I am looking for the words corruption and anti-corruption, and who the supposed corrupt or anti-corrupt party is.
Any future President will feel empowered to resist an
investigation into their own wrongdoing, malfeasance, or corruption, and the result will be a
nation at far greater risk of all three. [Supposed corrupt party: Trump] (10)
From their homes and their jail cells, from their public squares and their
refugee camps, from their waking hours until their last breath, individuals fighting human rights
abuses, journalists uncovering and exposing corruption, persecuted minorities struggling to
survive and preserve their faith, and countless others around the globe just hoping for a better life
look to America. [Supposed anti-corrupt party: journalists] (11)
It
had been more than three months since President Zelensky, a political neophyte, had been swept
into office in a landslide victory on a platform of rooting out corruption and ending the war
between his country and Russia. [Supposed anti-corrupt party: Ukrainian President Zelensky] (13) The talking points included
recommendations to encourage President Zelensky to continue to promote anti-corruption
reforms in Ukraine, a pillar of American foreign policy in the country as far back as its
independence in the 1990s when Ukraine first rid itself of Kremlin control. (same)
President Trump then asked President Zelensky “to look into” former Vice President
Biden’s role in encouraging Ukraine to remove a prosecutor widely viewed by the United States
and numerous European partners to be corrupt. [Supposed corrupt party: Ukrainian prosecutor, apparently Viktor Shokin; supposed anti-corrupt party: Biden] (14)
In so doing, President Trump gave currency to a
baseless allegation that Vice President Biden wanted to remove the corrupt prosecutor because
he was investigating Burisma, a company on whose board the Vice President’s son sat at the
time. (14) [Note: Here we have competing narratives. From Trump's perspective, he (Trump) was trying to root out corruption by seeking an investigation of the supposedly corrupt Biden, who got the anti-corrupt Shokin fired, who was investigating the corrupt Burisma and Hunter Biden. From Schiff's perspective: Trump was corrupt because he was seeking an investigation of the anti-corrupt Biden, who got the corrupt prosecutor Shokin fired].
During the call, President Trump also disparaged Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S.
ambassador to Ukraine, who championed anti-corruption reforms in the country, and whom
President Trump had unceremoniously removed months earlier following a smear campaign
waged against her by Mr. Giuliani and others. (Supposed anti-corrupt party: Marie Yovanovitch) (14) He [Trump] praised the current prosecutor at the time [Lutsenko?], who
was widely viewed as corrupt and who helped initiate the smear campaign against her [Yovanovitch]. (14) [Supposed corrupt parties: Trump and Lutsenko]
The President Removed Anti-Corruption Champion Ambassador Yovanovitch. She was known throughout Ukraine and among her peers for
aggressively advocating for anti-corruption reforms consistent with U.S. foreign policy and only
recently had been asked to extend her stay in Ukraine. Her effectiveness in anti-corruption
efforts earned her enemies in Kyiv and in Washington. As Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
George Kent testified in praising Ambassador Yovanovitch: “You can’t promote principled
anticorruption action without pissing off corrupt people.” Beginning on March 20, The Hill newspaper published several op-eds attacking
Ambassador Yovanovitch and former Vice President Joe Biden, relying on information from a
Ukrainian prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko, who was widely viewed to be corrupt. (Anti-corrupt parties: Yovanovitch and Biden; Corrupt parties: Trump and Lutsenko) (15)
That is the first 14 uses of the word corrupt. There are 172 uses in the document. This is worth looking into more.
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